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Following several months of wrestling with investing partner Telenor and a shareholder vote today, Russian service provider VimpelCom has been given the go-ahead to acquire Canada’s Wind Mobile and various other assets from Egyptian parent company Orascom for $6 billion. The transaction should be completed in the first half of 2011, and will make VimpelCom…
MOG and MINI USA are teaming-up to develop a new MINI Connected Approved App to bring MOG’s popular on-demand streaming music service to MINI vehicles equipped with the MINI Connected system. The two companies used South by Southwest to demonstrate a beta version of the application, though they failed to share the final app launch…
Mobile social gaming network OpenFeint is teaming up with Chinese online game operator and developer The9 to help top game developers port their apps to Android. Backed by the $100 million Fund9, the initiative will see the two companies reviewing and selecting top games for porting to Google’s mobile OS. OpenFeint integration is also expected…
Tapjoy was all proud to announce they have helped Glu Mobile fuel the revenue and audience growth of its latest hit game – Gun Bros. Glu used Tapjoy’s “alternative payment platform” to improve monetization rates and additionally promote the game. Overall, Gun Bros has been downloaded by more than 6.8 million people on iPhone, iPod,…
After the deal with Ordnance Survey for UK listings, mobile location services provider Telmap is partnering with Das Örtliche, Germany’s leading local directory to integrate their local businesses database into Telmap mobile location companion. As a result, folks relying on Telmap apps to navigate through Germany will get to access richer points of interest (POI)…
Nokia and Reliance Communications have teamed-up to announce a “first of its kind partnership in the country,” with the launch of the “India chapter” of the handset maker’s Ovi Store. As part of the deal, Reliance will apparently be the first operator to offer integrated operator billing, with purchases either deducted from prepaid credit or…
Developers looking to tap China’s huge mobile market now may have an easy way to monetize their apps in the world’s fastest growing economy. Amobee has teamed-up with Motorola to bring its in-app ads to mobile application developers looking to launch apps for Chinese mobile users. The solution allows developers to publish ad-supported apps in…
Imaging technologies provider Scalado announced that its new Camera Framework will be available on Qualcomm’s MSM8x60 dual-core processor. As a result, Qualcomm’s processor will be the first to optimize Scalado’s “Rewind” application, which makes it possible to pick and choose the best faces from different versions of a group photo in order to create a…
In addition to launching a partner program for WiFi hotspot operators – Skype Access, the popular VoIP services provider also announced a Mobile Partner Program for operators in markets with low 3G broadband penetration. The idea is to bring the “Skype experience” to a broad range of mobile users, while at the same time enabling…
Two of the largest mobile operators in the world, Vodafone and China Mobile, signed a “strategic co-operation framework agreement” at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Under the deal, the two companies will continue their existing co-operation in a number of areas, including exchange of corporate management, technical and operational expertise, enhanced roaming, multinational customers,…